Wednesday, 9 November 2011

FILMING: Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

Tuesday 8th November - Today at lunch we filmed the argument scene between Tom and Kate in which we planned for the couple to be all loved up with one another and  then they go to kiss one another in which Tom then grabs Kate and pushes her to the floor highlighting to the audience that Tom is a "bad/evil" character. During this time we also filmed scenes of the couple arguing. These scenes were filmed in the  Drama Studio as we felt the plain white wall in there would give us a nice blank canvas to keep our audience`s focus on the couple arguing as arguing contrasting with the couple`s happy moments is the main theme of our music video.





From the screen shots below you can see how these argument scenes and Tom acting like  he is going to kiss Kate but then pushing her to the floor turned out once we uploaded it to premiere pro. In terms of the pushing shot we are thinking about putting this part in slow motion to emphasise the brutality of Tom`s act to our audience but to also give connotations of the happiness they once had slowly slipping away due to the arguments they keep on having.





While in the  Drama Studio and while we had Kate and Tom together we decided to film "loved up/happy" shots of them so we could construct flashback scenes to offer a contrast to the couple arguing. By doing this we feel the theme of love vs heartbreak/ happy moments vs upset and sadness will be strongly communicated to our audience. An image of these flashback moments can be seen below.



Also, during Lunch we filmed the shots for the line "you`ve got your dumb friends, I know what they say". We filmed these shots in the common room kitchen as planned but not in the  common room sofa area as with it being Lunch the sofa area was occupied by a lot of people and filming would have been difficult. Therefore, when everyone had used the Kitchen we decided to gather together Kate, Tom and a group of Tom`s friends to film the  scene in which Tom is chatting, joking about with his friends and totally ignoring Kate who is upset in the corner of the room due to the Tom`s friends "sayings" about her and the lack of attention she is receiving from Tom.  We are either thinking of fading Kate out of the shot to amplify her "disappearance" in concern with Tom or fading Tom and his friends out of the shot to emphasise to the audience Kate, stood in the corner looking emotional while Tom and his friends are happy and joking around her not taking any notice of her and her upset.

The "you`ve got your dumb friends" shot can be seen below in photo form and screen shot form once we uploaded the footage to premiere pro.



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